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NEXT CONCERT:
3:00, Saturday, December 20, in Greenwich Village Jacob OBRECHT, "Beethoven" of the Early Renaissance: Missa Salve diva parens (see Upcoming Concerts) |
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The
latest in early music, Music Divine emphasizes sacred music centered around the year MD
(1500--plus or minus 500 years, from plainchant to Pärt), with a healthy dose of the secular. Its director and
members have sung in many of the best choirs and early music groups in the metropolitan area and elsewhere. The director
has also conducted performances by the New York Madrigal Singers, Polyhymnia, The Canby Singers, and other ensembles.
Music
Divine is named after a 6-voice madrigal by Thomas Tomkins. Rehearsals: Mondays, 7:15
- 9:15 pm, Upper
West Side (usually); Group size:
10-16 members |
In its first 3 years, Music Divine has performed in acoustically beautiful churches on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan, and in Greenwich Village, Boston, and Teaneck, NJ.
In 2007 we took part in the Boston Early Music Festival and the New York Early Music Celebration. The
New York performance was featured on the nationwide radio program Millenium of Music.
For the Make Music New York 2008 Festival,
Music Divine presented a sneak preview of its War & Peace concert inside a resonant Central Park underpass
near the zoo.
We are currently preparing performances of Jacob Obrecht's Missa Salve diva parens, a monumental,
late-15th-century mass, for New York City in December.
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